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My sister is one of my best friends. I love her and the last thing I'd want to do is hurt her feelings which is why this is hard for me.

She got married, had a house built, and moved into that house all since June of this year. I've been to her new house and it's amazing. She and her husband are SOOOOOO excited about having the whole family down for thanksgiving and up until recently, I was excited about going. However, now I've hit a problem.

Long story short, I think my mom and granddad might stay home for thanksgiving and if they do, I think I'm gonna need to stay with them so it's not just the two of them for thanksgiving. My sister will still have her husband, dad, grandmother, and all of her in laws, so I think it's the best thing to do.

So, how do I break it to her if I end up not going to her place thanksgiving? She's really excited about it. She's been texting me about how excited she is, she's making all of these plans, she's even planning to bake a pumpkin pie simply because I love it and I'm tellin' you, her pumpkin pie is so good, it's as addictive as cocaine.

What am I gonna do?

I would be honest truthful with her it's better to be then not tell her in the nicest way possible that you won't be able to come because you don't want it being just your mom and granddad you don't want it being just the two of them it's the thought that counts i think that's a good enough reason it's not like you aren't giving her a explanation reason tell her it's not a total loss since there will be other Thanksgiving's to celebrate and there's always next year she could make her pumpkin pie next year and have something to look forward to be excited about so once again it's not a total loss

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(Rating: 5) Thank you so much. You're totally right

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